Hi Kees, that really is lovely work on the fittings and especially the mast work which suits the build so well.
You may know by now that the probable reason for her sinking is that on 1st February 1917 the Germans declared what was known as the Intensified Submarine Campaign which meant, roughly, that any and every ship was liable to be torpedoed and sunk without warning. Just to show the level, the figures just for April 1917 was 545,000 tons of British shipping was sunk and together with allied, neutral and fishing craft the total came to 875,000 tons.Part of the reason for the campaign was the existence of the so-called Mystery Ships or Q ships which led the U boat captains to become a lot more nervous for the rest of the war.CheersTony